Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Constitutional and Social Changes that helped bring along a revolution
Constitutional and Social Changes that helped bring along a revolution Changers to the Constitution and social developments helped to bring along a revolution. When the United States passed the 13th amendment, the slave states erupted in anger because they had pretty much been bankrupted by the government. That was a Constitutional change that helped to bring along revolution. When Congress passed the 14th and 15th amendments the ex-slave states also got angry because it put blacks at the same social level as the whites. Those were just a few examples of some social and Constitutional developments that led to a revolution.In the Causes of Secession 1860 it says that in the Constitution Ãâcertain duties were imposed upon the several states, and the exercise of certain of their powers was restrained, which imperiled their continued existence as sovereign states.Ãâ This meant that in the Constitution there were several amendments which imposed upon several states rights. One such amendment was the 13th amendment which outlawed slavery in all states.A cartoon threatening that the KKK would lynch car...
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